Gotta hand it to him, even though he pissed off most of us (and I will never forgive him for reneging on electoral reform and reigning in CSIS/CSE for domestic surveillance), he’s at least appearing to do the right things for our security during his swan song.
The most ridiculous thing here is the assumption that Canadians would ever be more than Puerto Ricans in this scenario.
(1) We’d only ever join under duress
(2) If democracy still exists in the US, we wouldn’t be given the vote, because we’d vote against them
(3) If democracy doesn’t exist anymore, then whether we are called a state or not is irrelevant
(4) Canada gets turned into a strip mine with everyone conscripted to go fight against Mexico or whatever Roman Empire-style nonsense follows so that we can’t organize resistance
Ok but hear me out can you make more provinces out of US defectors???
No. We don’t have a mechanism to add new provinces to Canada. The current provinces are defined by the Constitution and the only way to change our Constitution is to re-write the whole thing and get all ten existing provinces to agree to it (we don’t have a constitutional amendment process.) The best you could do is to be a new territory; those can be created through a simple majority in Parliament.
As somebody that doesn’t quite understand the difference between a province and a territory, can you explain?
Provinces have powers outlined in the constitution. Territories don’t. Territories are to the Federal government similar to what municipalities are to the Provincial government. A Province can dissolve a municipal government, merge them, create new ones, and the Federal government can do the same kinds of things with Territories.
Thanks
Provinces have more autonomy and more representation in the Federal government, is the gist of it.
The Manitoba act says otherwise.
Also, we do have an amendment process, although it is more convoluted than it used to be when Manitoba became a province.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Canada
When can we expel the US ambassador until they stop with this 51st state nonsense? I don’t even see the point of discussing Nafta 3.0 if the clown can’t respect his own signature. We will take the temporary 30% cut to gdp and emerge stronger in a few years.
Forget the ambassador. Stop shipping them stuff.
